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To protect the shelf-life and quality of your jams and jellies, it's best to store them in the refrigerator. The cold temperature will significantly slow down the growth of microorganisms, according to Alvin Lee, Ph.D., associate professor of food and nutrition at Illinois Institute of Technology.

Supply Chain Quarterly

“Spoofing vehicles can be very dangerous,” says Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Boris Pervan. “If you spoof one car, and that information gets passed on to others, it’s infecting the whole system. On the other hand, the information from the other vehicles could be of some use to tell you that you’re being spoofed, so right now we have no idea how that trade-off will play out.”

Modern Machine Shop

Representatives for DMG MORI and Illinois Institute of Technology, who are developing a national center for advanced manufacturing in Chicago, discussed shared goals of providing the workforce training to prepare the millions of new workers needed to help revive American semiconductor and advanced manufacturing sectors, as well as cultivating applied research and development in critical industrial sectors.

Mass Transit

Illinois Institute of Technology's Center for Assured and Resilient Navigation in Advanced Transportation Systems (CARNATIONS), led by Professor Boris Pervan, was named a new Tier 1 University Transportation Center (UTC) by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT). As a Tier 1 UTC, CARNATIONS will receive a $10 million grant from USDOT for improving transportation navigation systems by making them more resilient to cyber attacks such as spoofing and jamming.

ABA Journal

“There’s been a material increase in the capabilities of these tools, of these large language models, particularly with GPT but just in general, and that does bear on the type of work that lawyers do,” says Daniel Martin Katz, a law professor at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent School of Law. “This is important for lawyers because we have technology that’s finally pretty good at language, and that has always been a challenge.”

Times Higher Education

At the Digital Universities U.S. conference held at Illinois Institute of Technology, internet pioneer Vinton Cerf has urged higher education leaders to modify not just their assessment methods but their overall teaching and research approaches as artificial intelligence advances. “Higher education has an obligation to explain what those problems are, how they arise, and what we can do to ameliorate the potential hazardous effects,” said Cerf, now the chief internet evangelist at Google.

Inside Higher Ed

Digital Universities U.S., a conference held at Illinois Tech and co-hosted by Times Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed, had its share of technology enthusiasm in hallway discussions and on the agenda, but the event was far from a pep rally, with many speakers expressing worries about the rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence, bemoaning the tendency to embrace the latest “bright shiny object,” and cautioning against use of technology that isn’t directly in service of institutions’ core missions. At one session, Michael Gosz, Illinois Tech's vice president of data analytics, heralded a course recommendation system that has streamlined the advising process, but he acknowledged that the system worked well because the data that drive the recommendations were generated through deep conversations between advisers and students in the past—conversations that the mechanized system might reduce the need for. “What happens in the future? Does the system degrade over time?”